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Journal articles on the topic "North American Missions"

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Saeger, James Schofield. "The Mission and Historical Missions: Film and the Writing of History." Americas 51, no. 3 (1995): 393–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1008228.

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Because of the power of film, movies with historical themes affect public perceptions of the past more deeply than do scholarly reconstructions. Film makers and historians search for meaning in separate ways, but their quests can converge. Examples of different approaches to similar destinations are found in a newer film and older historical views of Catholic missions in South America. Released in 1986, The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, displays paternalistic attitudes like those of an earlier generation of North American academic historians. The film's voice is a white European distortion of Native American reality. This essay will examine that voice, offer alternative explanations of historical events, and suggest a research agenda for future study of the Guarani missions of Paraguay, often mentioned in surveys but seldom studied by North American historians.
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Escobar, Samuel. "Missions and Renewal in Latin-American Catholicism." Missiology: An International Review 15, no. 2 (1987): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968701500203.

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Not enough attention has been paid to the impact of Catholic North American and European missionary work on the contemporary state of Christianity in Latin America. Another important aspect of recent missionary history is the effect of the Protestant missionary presence in Latin America on the Catholic Church there. This article makes an initial exploration into these processes, examining especially how Latin-American Catholicism is experiencing a change in three areas: a self-critical redefinition of the meaning of being a Christian, a fresh understanding of the Christian message in which the Bible plays a vital role, and a change of pastoral methodologies more relevant to the situation of the continent.
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Moreau, A. Scott. "A Current Snapshot of North American Protestant Missions." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 35, no. 1 (2011): 12–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693931103500107.

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Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet. "Rendering Economies: Native American Labor and Secondary Animal Products in the Eighteenth-Century Pimería Alta." American Antiquity 76, no. 1 (2011): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.76.1.3.

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While the ostensible motivation for Spanish missionization in the Americas was religious conversion, missions were also critical to the expansion of European economic institutions in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Native American labor in mission contexts was recruited in support of broader programs of colonialism, mercantilism, and resource extraction. Archaeological research throughout North America demonstrates the importance and extent of the integration of Native labor into regional colonial economies. Animals and animal products were often important commodities within colonialperiod regional exchange networks and thus, zooarchaeological data can be crucial to the reconstruction of local economic practices that linked Native labor to larger-scale economic processes. Zooarchaeological remains from two Spanish missions—one in southern Arizona and one in northern Sonora—demonstrate that Native labor supported broader colonial economic processes through the production of animal products such as tallow and hide. Tallow rendered at Mission San Agustín de Tucson and Mission Nuestra Señora del Pilar y Santiago de Cocóspera was vital for mining activities in the region, which served as an important wealth base for the continued development of Spanish colonialism in the Americas. This research also demonstrates continuity in rendering practices over millennia of human history, and across diverse geographical regions, permitting formalization of a set of expectations for identifying tallow-rendered assemblages, regardless of context.
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Hann, John H. "Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Visitas With Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Americas 46, no. 4 (1990): 417–513. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1006866.

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The early European presence in California and in the American Southwest in general is identified with missions. Although missions were equally important in Spanish Florida and at an earlier date, the average American does not associate missions with Florida or Georgia. Indeed, as David Hurst Thomas observed in a recent monograph on the archaeological exploration of a site of the Franciscan mission of Santa Catalina de Guale on Georgia's St. Catherines Island, the numerous missions of Spanish Florida have remained little known even in scholarly circles. And as Charles Hudson has noted, this ignorance or amnesia has extended to awareness of the native peoples who inhabited those Southeastern missions or were in contact with them, even though these aboriginal inhabitants of the Southeast “possessed the richest culture of any of the native people north of Mexico … by almost any measure.” Fortunately, as Thomas remarked in the above-mentioned monograph, “a new wave of interest in mission archaeology is sweeping the American Southeast.” This recent and ongoing work holds the promise of having a more lasting impact than its historical counterpart of a half-century or so ago in the work of Herbert E. Bolton, Fr. Maynard Geiger, OFM, Mary Ross, and John Tate Lanning. Over the fifty odd years since Lanning's Spanish Missions of Georgia appeared, historians and archaeologists have made significant contributions to knowledge about sites in Spanish Florida where missions or mission outstations and forts or European settlements were established. But to date no one has compiled a comprehensive listing from a historian's perspective of the mission sites among them to which one may turn for the total number of such establishments, their general location, time of foundation, length of occupation, moving, circumstances of their demise and the tribal affiliation of the natives whom they served. This catalog and its sketches attempt to meet that need.
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Thomas, Norman E. "From Missions to Globalization: Teaching Missiology in North American Seminaries." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 13, no. 3 (1989): 103–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693938901300302.

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Klaus, Byron D. "Missiological Reflections on Twentieth-Century Pentecostal Missions: North American Perspectives." Pneuma 16, no. 1 (1994): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007494x00021.

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Yaremko, Jason M. "Protestant Missions, Cuban Nationalism and the Machadato." Americas 56, no. 3 (2000): 53–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003161500029527.

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Before the Spanish-Cuban-American War of 1898, Protestantism and Cuban nationalism coexisted relatively comfortably and even naturally, the function of a Protestant movement under Spanish colonialism that, unlike the rest of Latin America, was run not by North American or English missionaries, but by Cuban ministers. After United States intervention in 1898, U.S. interests were imposed on virtually every sector of Cuban society, including organized Protestantism, influencing Cuba's development for at least the next half-century. Preempted by U.S. intervention, Cuban nationalism, in both its ecclesiastical and secular dimensions, endured and intensified with the deepening of Cubans' dependency on the U.S. Politically, Cuban nationalism was expressed in growing protests and demands for a more genuine independence by abrogating the Platt Amendment and otherwise ending U.S. interventionism. Ecclesiastically, Cubans pushed for a greater role in Protestant church affairs, and toward Cubanization of the Church. Protestant missions thus confronted a rising nationalism within and outside the Church. By 1920, eastern Cuba, the cradle of Cuban independence, became the epicenter of this struggle.
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Patterson, James A. "North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy (review)." Catholic Historical Review 93, no. 2 (2007): 449–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cat.2007.0195.

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Bruner, Jason. "Inquiring into Empire: Princeton Seminary’s Society of Inquiry on Missions, the British Empire, and the Opium Trade, Ca. 1830‐1850." Mission Studies 27, no. 2 (2010): 194–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338310x536438.

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AbstractPrinceton Seminary was intimately involved in the North American foreign missions movement in the nineteenth century. One remarkable dimension of this involvement came through the student-led Society of Inquiry on Missions, which sought to gather information about the global state of the Christian mission enterprise. This paper examines the Society’s correspondence with Protestant missionaries in China regarding their attitudes to the British Empire in the years 1830‐1850. It argues that the theological notion of providence informed Princetonians’ perceptions of the world, which consequently dissociated the Christian missionary task with any particular nation or empire. An examination of the Society of Inquiry’s correspondence during the mid-nineteenth century reveals much about Protestant missionaries and their interactions with the opium trade and the results of the First Opium War (1839‐1842). Princetonians’ responses to the opium trade and the First Opium War led ultimately to a significant critique of western commercial influence in East Asia. In conclusion, this paper questions the extent to which commerce, empire, and Christian missions were inherently associated in nineteenth century American Protestant missionary activity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "North American Missions"

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McLendon, Eric Blake. "Slave missions and membership in North Alabama." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Theses/MCLENDON_ERIC_1.pdf.

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Bair, Daniel R. "The integration of North American short-term mission teams into long-term ministry efforts in Central America and Mexico." Columbia, SC : Columbia Theological Seminary, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.023-0219.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia International University, 2007.<br>Typescript. "December, 2007." Also available in CD-ROM. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-173).
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Dodge, Anne Elizabeth. "A historical and analytical overview of North American Protestant Missions in Zimbabwe : 1890-1987." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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Meinerts, Oryn G. "A policy manual for the North American Baptist Conference Missions Department." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Labat, Sean J. "The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America, 1927-1934 a case study in North American missions /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Siha, Anees Zaka. "Principles and methods of church growth in a North American Muslim context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Carlson, Ronald. "A survey of evangelical Christianity in the Republic of Ireland and a proposal for North American involvement." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Kayser, J. G. "Criteria and predictors of missionary cross-cultural competence in selected North American evangelical missions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492983.

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Carter, Ben Michael. "A study of Bethany Fellowship as an example of conservative North American evangelical missions." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19609.

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This thesis contains a history of Bethany Fellowship Missions against the background of developments in the North American Protestant missionary enterprise from 1945 until 1993. In chapters one and two I present the history of North American Protestant organisations and of post-World War II missions. In chapters three through five I discuss the history of Bethany Fellowship, its theology, and major changes that have occurred in the organisation since its inception. In chapters six through eight I discuss Bethany's missionary outreach in Brazil, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. In chapter nine I discuss developments in post-World War II missions and how those developments have affected Bethany's missionary programme. In chapter ten I discuss Bethany's missions' theory. In chapter eleven I draw my conclusions. My hypothesis in this thesis is that Bethany Fellowship Missions is a useful window into the world of conservative North American evangelical missions for two reasons. First, as a member of the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association, Bethany is an example of North American evangelical missions confessionally. Second, because of its distinctives it is also an example of the extraordinary complexity to be found among such missions.
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Burke, Jeffrey Charles. "The establishment of the American Presbyterian Mission in Egypt, 1854-1940 : an overview." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36557.

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This dissertation examines the educational contributions of the American Mission in Egypt using previously untapped archival documents from the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. The principal focus of this research is on the establishment of American Mission schools in Egypt. The successes and failures of this missionary movement's work with Copts and Muslims are examined within the context of demographic data and political history. The study also discusses Egyptian anti-missionary sentiments directed against the American Mission in the 1920s and 30s, and constitutes an exploration of Christian-Muslim relations in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Egypt.
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Books on the topic "North American Missions"

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100 missions north. Brassey's, 1993.

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The American missionaries and north-east India, 1836-1900 A.D.: A documentary study. Spectrum Publishers, 1986.

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Arnold, Frank L. Long road to obsolescence: A North American mission to Brazil. Xlibris, 2009.

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Wuthnow, Robert. Boundless faith: The global outreach of American churches. University of California Press, 2009.

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North American Protestant missionaries in Western Europe: A critical appraisal : mit einer deutschen Zusammenfassung. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, 1993.

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History of American Baptist Mission in north-east India, 1836-1950. Mittal Publications, 1987.

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Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America. American service book of the Orthodox Benedictine Missions. Saint Herman of Alaska Orthodox Mission, 1989.

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Countering colonization: Native American women and Great Lakes missions, 1630-1900. University of California Press, 1992.

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Anderson, Owanah. Jamestown commitment: The Episcopal Church and the American Indian. Forward Movement Publications, 1988.

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Josiah, Pratt. The life of the Rev. David Brainerd, missionary to the North American Indians. R.B. Seeley and W. Birnside, 1985.

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Book chapters on the topic "North American Missions"

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Panich, Lee M. "Mission Archaeology in North America." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1396-2.

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Panich, Lee M. "Mission Archaeology in North America." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1396.

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Panich, Lee M. "Mission Archaeology in North America." In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_1396.

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Lange, W. R., and S. D. Kreider. "A Survey of Health Risks of North American Mission Personnel Serving Overseas." In Travel Medicine. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73772-5_115.

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Eberle, Dagmar, Rainer-Olaf Schultze, and Roland Sturm. "Mission Accomplished? A Comparative Exploration of Conservatism in the United States and Canada." In Conservative Parties and Right-Wing Politics in North America. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09508-8_1.

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"Purgatory: Interpreting Christian Missions and North American Indians." In Converging Worlds. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203436042-16.

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"Purgatory: Interpreting Christian Missions and North American Indians." In Converging Worlds. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203336472-18.

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Moreau, A. Scott. "Evangelical Missions Development 1910 to 2010 in the North American Setting:." In Evangelical and Frontier Mission. Fortress Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcm59.4.

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Moreau, A. Scott. "Evangelical Missions Development 1910 to 2010 in the North American Setting:." In Evangelical and Frontier Mission. Fortress Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcm59.4.

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Griffith, Sarah M. "A New Pacific Community." In The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041686.003.0005.

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American liberal Protestants continued to promote cultural internationalism and racial understanding through the interwar period. In 1923, American missionaries who had worked to defend the civil liberties of Asian North Americans established the Institute of Pacific Relations through which they recruited powerful U.S. officials. During the 1928 Conference of World Missions, they challenged international mainline Christian associations to do more to challenge racial discrimination both in and outside their institutions. Taken together, these examples show how liberal Protestants adapted their social reform during a period characterized by American isolationism and immigrant exclusion.
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Conference papers on the topic "North American Missions"

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Anderson, Gerald B. "Acoustic Detection of Distressed Freight Car Roller Bearings." In ASME/IEEE 2007 Joint Rail Conference and Internal Combustion Engine Division Spring Technical Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc/ice2007-40091.

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Trackside Acoustic Detection System (TADS®) development spearheaded implementation of an acoustic freight car roller bearing detector whose purpose is to prevent in-service bearing failures (burned off journals and hot bearing detector train stops). The means of accomplishing this goal is by providing the user with a warning of internal bearing defects or degradation with component involvement and severity information. The Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) began the TADS® development process in 1994 with basic research into bearing defect acoustic emissions. Subsequently, TTCI conducted prototype testing on a North American railroad, constructed and installed of several international beta test systems, and finally has sold production systems in North America and internationally. There are currently about 40 TADS® sites in operation world-wide with 2.0 or more systems scheduled for installation in 2007. The original mission for TADS® in North America was an early warning of bearing degradation to allow for scheduled maintenance, but after initial evaluation, this mission enlarged to include notification of potentially high risk bearings. The high risk bearing is defined as one with fairly large areas of internal damage and at an increased risk of overheating or failing in service. The high risk bearing has a different acoustic signature, dissimilar to that of smaller defects. This paper will outline the change in mission for this detector and describe the development of an improved capability for detecting these high risk bearings.
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Sameepa Hettiarachchige-Don, Anton C., and Visvakumar Aravinthan. "Estimation of missing transmission line reactance data using multiple linear regression." In 2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/naps.2017.8107278.

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Epur, Sheshi, Aaron Schartner, and Frank Sander. "Achieving North American Record for Longest Intelligent Inspection of a Natural Gas Pipeline." In 2018 12th International Pipeline Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2018-78601.

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TransCanada was faced with a significant challenge to inspect a 941 km NPS 48 pipeline. The options for the inline inspection (ILI) were multiple segments which would cause an increased cost with new pigging facilities required and a delay to the ILI schedule or attempt to pig the longest natural gas pipeline section in North America. The extraordinary proposal would require a massive 48″ combination Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL) tool to traverse a high-speed gas pipeline 941km from Burstall, Saskatchewan to Ile des Chenes, Manitoba, Canada. Given the alternative of the installation of 3 additional launcher and receiver stations and the risk to overall project schedule from extended inspection operations, TransCanada took the bold decision to perform an MFL inspection in a single pass. However, as expected, this option created a new set of challenges to guarantee first run success in one of the harshest environments for an ILI tool and in a line where the cleanliness condition was unknown. This last factor, was a critical concern as the volumes of debris that could be collected with the highly aggressive MFL tool brushes, could easily and very quickly have led to very significant debris build up during inspection that at best would likely cause degraded data leading to an unwanted re-run and at worst the possibility of a stuck pig and subsequent retrieval program. From a project perspective either occurance was considered to be mission critical — if either occurred there was no easy solution to collecting the much needed condition data of the pipeline. In July 2017, a successful VECTRA HD GEMINI inspection was completed. This paper discusses the main program risks, mitigation steps taken over and above a standard ILI run. Key considerations and actions taken relating to additional engineering and tool modifications to various components of the inspection vehicle itself will be discussed. Lastly, insight will be given into an extensive smart cleaning program developed with the ILI vendor, using a combination of mechanical cleaning associated and debris level assessment, specifically designed and tailored for the project to ensure that the pipeline was both ready for ILI and that cleaning had reached optimum for ILI so that full, high quality MFL data would be collected the first time.
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Themelis, Nickolas J. "A New Resource: The Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology Council." In 11th North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec11-1693.

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Despite the fact that there are over one hundred Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facilities around the country serving tens of millions of people, there are no industrial or government research centers dedicated to solving problems and improving the WTE technology. In recognition of this fact, the Waste-to-Energy Research and Technology (WTERT) Council was formed in May 2002. Its mission is to link academic researchers and professionals concerned with integrated waste management and energy recovery from wastes and promote R&amp;D that will advance resource recovery by combustion or gasification. This paper reports on the activities of WTERT in its first year and the research directions that have been identified and initiated.
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Brake, Daniel E., Steven V. Stearns, and N. Daryl Ronsky. "Enhanced Pipeline Leak Detection Using Airborne Differential Absorption LIDAR." In 2008 7th International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2008-64650.

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Aerial leak detection by use of Differential Absorption LIDAR (DIAL) technology has become a viable technique for detecting, quantifying and pinpointing methane emissions from underground pipelines and operating facilities. This paper describes a number of leak detection survey projects performed throughout North America using the DIAL technology from a fixed wing aircraft. The technology was deployed: • In test situations designed to measure the detection capability and lower detection threshold; • In long distance, large diameter, high pressure natural gas transmission pipelines traversing extremely rugged terrain; • In medium pressure pipelines in populated, higher consequence areas. Results from each of the airborne DIAL leakage survey mission scenarios will be described.
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Themelis, Nickolas J. "WTERT: May 2006–May 2007 Highlights." In 15th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec15-3221.

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The Waste-To-Energy Research and Technology Council (WTERT) was co-founded in May 2002 by the Earth Engineering Center of Columbia University (EEC) and Integrated Waste Services Association (IWSA). Its mission is to direct academic research on various aspects of energy and materials recovery from municipal and other solid wastes and disseminate the findings of its research to professionals and the public. WTERT is a non-profit organization that relies heavily on faculty and graduate students who are studying various aspects of integrated waste management and waste-to-energy. The main products of WTERT research are the theses, technical publications and presentations made during the year. In all there were 14 publications, 22 presentations, and 12 posters presented by WTERT faculty and graduate students at different technical meetings and public forums. This report presents the highlights of the WTERT activities since NAWTEC 14.
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Zannes, Maria, Morton Barlaz, Marco Castaldi, and Nickolas J. Themelis. "The Center for Sustainable Utilization of Resources: Quantifying Climate Change Impacts of Managing Wastes." In 17th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec17-2356.

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The environmental impact and potential for utilization of the billions of tons of used products and materials discarded each year by humanity is immense. The sheer magnitude of the materials and complexity of waste management and reuse make the issue of quantifying impacts and best practices all the more difficult. In recognition of this task, the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University and the Environmental Engineering Group of North Carolina State University combined resources in 2008 to form a research organization that is focused on defining and promoting best practices for sustainable waste management. This is the Center for Sustainable Use of Resources (SUR; wwwSURcenter.org) and its mission is to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions and other life cycle impacts of various “waste” management practices; and use this information for advancing the best practical means for managing used materials, in the U.S. and globally. The SUR Center builds on the strengths of past research at Columbia and North Carolina State on recycling, composting, waste-to-energy, and landfilling. This paper describes some of the research work completed and underway at the Center.
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Rodgers, David H., and Arthur H. Vaughan. "Development of the second generation Wide-Field Planetary Camera for Hubble Space Telescope service mission." In 1993 North American Conference on Smart Structures and Materials, edited by Mark A. Ealey. SPIE, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.152673.

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Roche, Kevin H., and Anne K. Hewes. "ecomaine: An Integrated Waste Management System." In 20th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec20-7064.

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ecomaine manages solid waste for its member communities through an integrated strategy that includes a single sort recycling center, a waste-to-energy (WTE) power plant and a 250 acre landfill for residual ash. The public organization has over 40 member communities in Maine which equates to over 24% of the State’s population. Established as a non-profit in the 1970’s with a mission to address trash disposal for future generations, a comprehensive waste system has emerged. The method of balefilling municipal solid waste (MSW) was replaced by a state-of-the-art WTE facility in 1988 and the multiple-sort recycling system was upgraded to a single-sort advanced system in 2007. Roughly 170,000 tons of MSW are processed through the WTE facility each year. This results in an average of 83,000–105,000 megawatt-hours of electricity generated annually. Since 2005, recycling tonnage has increased 71% from 21,000 to 36,000 tons. The State of Maine established a “Solid Waste Management Hierarchy” in 2007 cascading in disposal preference from Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost, Waste-to-Energy to Landfilling MSW. ecomaine is researching the feasibility of implementing an organics recovery system that would include food waste to further advance the Solid Waste Hierarchy and State’s recycling goal of 50%. ecomaine continues to manage its resources through innovation that highlight the resiliency of an integrated waste management system. For example, ecomaine has adapted to periods of waste shortages through strategies of caching MSW during times of higher waste generation and storing that waste until it is needed. ecomaine selects cover material for temporary use that is combustible so that it can efficiently be processed through the WTE facility. When fuel is scarce, the cached material is returned to the WTE as a fuel input. Another example, of matching a waste to a beneficial reuse is ecomaine’s ash metals mining project for the recovery of both ferrous metals and valuable non-ferrous material from screened ash. ecomaine strives to sustainably treat residual waste streams after enhanced resource recovery, re-use and recycling efforts and embrace an integrated waste management system. While challenges face many waste disposal operations such as changing regulations, ecomaine communities believe an integrated system with a good design and forward-looking plant management allow for a robust and effective service, as the ecomaine example shows.
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Ralescu, Anca, and Sofia Visa. "On filling-in missing attribute values for Bayes and fuzzy classifiers." In NAFIPS 2008 - 2008 Annual Meeting of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/nafips.2008.4531263.

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Karlstrom, Karl, Laura Crossey, Allyson Matthis, and Carl Bowman. Telling time at Grand Canyon National Park: 2020 update. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285173.

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Grand Canyon National Park is all about time and timescales. Time is the currency of our daily life, of history, and of biological evolution. Grand Canyon’s beauty has inspired explorers, artists, and poets. Behind it all, Grand Canyon’s geology and sense of timelessness are among its most prominent and important resources. Grand Canyon has an exceptionally complete and well-exposed rock record of Earth’s history. It is an ideal place to gain a sense of geologic (or deep) time. A visit to the South or North rims, a hike into the canyon of any length, or a trip through the 277-mile (446-km) length of Grand Canyon are awe-inspiring experiences for many reasons, and they often motivate us to look deeper to understand how our human timescales of hundreds and thousands of years overlap with Earth’s many timescales reaching back millions and billions of years. This report summarizes how geologists tell time at Grand Canyon, and the resultant “best” numeric ages for the canyon’s strata based on recent scientific research. By best, we mean the most accurate and precise ages available, given the dating techniques used, geologic constraints, the availability of datable material, and the fossil record of Grand Canyon rock units. This paper updates a previously-published compilation of best numeric ages (Mathis and Bowman 2005a; 2005b; 2007) to incorporate recent revisions in the canyon’s stratigraphic nomenclature and additional numeric age determinations published in the scientific literature. From bottom to top, Grand Canyon’s rocks can be ordered into three “sets” (or primary packages), each with an overarching story. The Vishnu Basement Rocks were once tens of miles deep as North America’s crust formed via collisions of volcanic island chains with the pre-existing continent between 1,840 and 1,375 million years ago. The Grand Canyon Supergroup contains evidence for early single-celled life and represents basins that record the assembly and breakup of an early supercontinent between 729 and 1,255 million years ago. The Layered Paleozoic Rocks encode stories, layer by layer, of dramatic geologic changes and the evolution of animal life during the Paleozoic Era (period of ancient life) between 270 and 530 million years ago. In addition to characterizing the ages and geology of the three sets of rocks, we provide numeric ages for all the groups and formations within each set. Nine tables list the best ages along with information on each unit’s tectonic or depositional environment, and specific information explaining why revisions were made to previously published numeric ages. Photographs, line drawings, and diagrams of the different rock formations are included, as well as an extensive glossary of geologic terms to help define important scientific concepts. The three sets of rocks are separated by rock contacts called unconformities formed during long periods of erosion. This report unravels the Great Unconformity, named by John Wesley Powell 150 years ago, and shows that it is made up of several distinct erosion surfaces. The Great Nonconformity is between the Vishnu Basement Rocks and the Grand Canyon Supergroup. The Great Angular Unconformity is between the Grand Canyon Supergroup and the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. Powell’s term, the Great Unconformity, is used for contacts where the Vishnu Basement Rocks are directly overlain by the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. The time missing at these and other unconformities within the sets is also summarized in this paper—a topic that can be as interesting as the time recorded. Our goal is to provide a single up-to-date reference that summarizes the main facets of when the rocks exposed in the canyon’s walls were formed and their geologic history. This authoritative and readable summary of the age of Grand Canyon rocks will hopefully be helpful to National Park Service staff including resource managers and park interpreters at many levels of geologic understandings...
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